financial movies and shakers flocked to a major gathering in law school to cheer over the state of the world's economy and made currency manipulation and the never ending eurozone crisis. concerns of a hollywood horror future resurface in the us says the government some support for surveillance sees millions spent on biometrics research. and as budget cuts in britain strike against police with thousands of layoffs in the past chair takes a look at whether less officers means more crime. and

welcome to r.t. twenty four hour news live from moscow. our top story now the world's economic woes stoked by take full tide carissa bottles and europe's painful crisis will come to light at a meeting of the g twenty financial heads and the leaders of central banks here in moscow for russia the gathering is seen as a launch pad for aboard a g. twenty summit this year and to talk more on that are now joined live by aussies lucy catherine of who's here in moscow so very nice to see lucy good morning so all we're hearing now is concerns about the prospects of the so-called currency wars so what's behind this and not any decisions on the cards. good morning well of course when central bankers and top finance leaders meet here today in moscow the only

topic at the top of the agenda is really probably going to be the currency war scandal now what's really prompted this japan has seen various fluctuations in its economy as a result the yen has slid quite drastically over the past few months that this is prompted some countries to accuse it of essentially protectionist policies of deflating artificially the value of the yen and what does that really mean well when a country isn't doing so well economically what it can do one of the options that it has is to make its currency for example the twenty dollar bill worth a little bit less what that does is that makes the goods of the country manufacturers cheaper making them more competitive on the market and artificially it that way stimulating economic growth now this is been the accusation towards japan japan just says that hey it's just trying to protect its own domestic economic growth the worry here however is that policies like this come into play that can raise the specter of a tit for tat sort of war between different trading countries trading partners with

each country deflating the value of its currency to make its manufactured goods more competitive that would essentially that kind of clash is what's known as a currency war at the last time we saw this was in the one nine hundred thirty s. with drastic negative consequences and of course the fear is that the european countries could follow suit and this would lead to a new kind of clash all over again now as it comes as far as the media is actually concerned we're not really likely to see any strong language on this issue although it will be at the center of the debate that's because like most economic issues the g. twenty is a force divided into separate camps with the developing nations essentially complaining of these kinds of policies and the developed nations saying hey guys you know we've long complained about the undervalued currency of the asian exports that we're not really going to do all that much about it yeah and i guess it's not the only issue on the table so they're going to discuss that. well of course i mean considering of the drastic economic crisis that hasn't really gone away there's

a lot for finance ministers to talk about here now one of the most contentious issues is probably going to be i.m.f. representation while the g twenty economies represent ninety percent of the world's economy and countries like russia and china for example hold trillions of dollars in reserves they have a relatively small say at the international monetary fund and one of the big issues that countries are going to be talking about is reforming the way that countries are represented at the i.m.f. so that developing countries have more of a say and a more important role now another thing is of course we've seen this massive economic crisis over the past few years the last time the g twenty countries met in toronto in two thousand and ten the countries agreed to cut debt and deficits by half by two thousand and sixteen what we're seeing is that countries aren't really able to meet those goals and what we're likely to see coming out of the meetings this weekend according to the russian finance minister is actually a shifting of the rhetoric on this one essential going to see countries focus less on debt and deficit reduction and more on trying to stimulate growth job creation

for example that's something that russia has been really big on a sort of working more closely together to stimulate. growth at home trying to somehow reach some sort of a compromise but of course when you have so many different countries battling their own domestic problems it's quite difficult to come to some sort of agreement on this very quickly the one one issue one area where countries are likely going to probably agree on is the whole issue of talking negatively against those credit ratings agencies of course we haven't seen a lot of criticism until the western countries like the u.s. like european countries started to suffer under a negative credit rating agencies doing something that most countries can't agree on how they see some tough talk about that. seemingly elusive thank you very much indeed and of course we'll be talking to you later. thank you. now hunger poverty and a lack of health care it's modern day europe ingres the continent's most troubled

state and people there seems to find ways to cope with the situation like queuing for charge turned out and even leaving the country for greener pastures. and a decade behind bars without charge or trial and now a please be mayster bronco guard to finally free a british man from gone time the day after he was cleared for release years ago all that coming up late. but now the u.s. department of defense has allocated three million dollars for the development of a groundbreaking smartphone face recognition technology that it's intended to be used mainly by the military its potential use in law enforcement health care and cboe i.d. programs sparked new privacy concerns or he's worried a fortnight has more now on america's formulas for surveillance. the information age was an era nearly everybody in braced by today's surveillance age experts say

is a reality almost no one can escape we are five years away in new york from zero privacy from every new yorker being tracked and catalogued and watched and that information being saved for pretty much an indeterminate period of private investigator steve rom bomb believes america is being landscaped into an eis wide open society through the advancing market of biometrics technology that uses physiological and behavioral recognition to identify people. a system touted as a national security necessity is being used to build a database where the biometric identity of millions of americans who be gathered and stored when you look at crying when you look at terrorism what we're really focusing on is the individual and so if you are interested in reducing crime or reducing terrorism you do have to focus on the individual and biometrics is

a way. of connecting the person with a measurement recognition of unwanted visitors face recognition and iris scanning are the current tools of the trade however scientists are reportedly developing new technology aimed at identifying anyone from much greater distances if researchers are successful the defense department may eventually be able to detect individuals by your shape heartbeat walking patterns and possibly even older long range fingerprint and iris scanning are reportedly also being explored for the u.s. tool box of tracking are there reasons to have such security devices sure. do i think it's american do i think it's appropriate that somebody can press a button and determine everywhere i've been everything i've done. everyone i know its role. and i think that we're entitled to privacy. author and journalist

a.j. jacobs recently spent three months documenting every second of his life with a small camera and like a bluetooth it's remarkable it holds ten hours of video esquire magazine editor at large subscribed to self surveillance for an article about life logging yet he believes the market of high tech cameras and consumer biometric applications will soon make little brother and equally big concern and i think that we are. we're not going to have a private moment in the future and i always tell people listen if you want to have an extramarital affair you better have it right now because you're going to be able to have them five years because everything will be tracked your husband or wife will be able to know exactly where you are at all times as companies like apple moved her words fingerprint readers and facial recognition insiders say that consumer electronics will generate an entirely new source of revenue for the biometric industry and industry estimated to bank more than nine billion dollars

globally this year however the top cash cow is expected to remain government spending on security the bit in the past five years the department of defense has shelled out an estimated three billion dollars on biometric programs. hard to believe that just ten years ago the concept of facial recognition biometrics surveillance and domestic drones was limited to science fiction movies like minority report. marina point r.t. . on this international is taking a petition to the u.s. president to call for the release of a u.k. citizen who has now spent more than a decade in gun tunnel obey. was held under suspicion over links to al qaeda but has never been charged or faced a trial so he was cleared for release in two thousand and nine but remains in detention on the nets and tom has been a defense counsel for guns on the prisoners says almost case is not an exception.

shocker armor was sold for a bounty the united states drop of leaflets to them and offered five thousand to twenty five thousand dollars for every quote arab terrorists who would be turned in in an area where people make two hundred dollars a year that was enough as the leaflet said to feed your family for a life so any year of you found you could sell for a bounty there are about one hundred sixty people at guantanamo today about fifteen of those are people who really could be charged with war crimes psychologist muhammad they were brought to guantanamo afterwards of there are other you know one hundred fifty or so people eighty six of them have been cleared for release and are sitting there the others are not even charged with anything or thought of to be really bad guys these are people ignored president obama faces opposition within congress and there's no doubt the people of that many republicans that pandered to fear but obama cannot let that stop him from doing justice these people need to be

out shocker aamer should be out of guantanamo there is no reason for him to be there which is police have been given a severe accounting with the number of offices and g.c. hitting a record low of the country reduces expenses and it's a continuing financial struggles but is it having any effect on the u.k. security i'll see soph us try to figure out by asking both pro and anti motion to just lighten. well the home secretary's announced plans to set up a national database where police officers will have to declare second jobs this is aimed at raising professional standards this is also part of why the reforms that are seeing the number of police officers drop to the lowest levels for eleven years is the impact of a twenty percent cut and whitehall funding to police budgets takes effect but just think more about these reforms i'm joined by conservative m.p. and britain and labor and. thank you very much to both of you for joining us jim

i'm going to start with a lot of the police officers that we were speaking with we've got is a bit of you've got these reforms going to but at the same time they're seeing the number of police. and police. so i mean it's quite confusing time i think for police officers as to what's being expected. i understand that there may be slight consolation but given the battering the reputation of the police is hard over recent months the government had to take steps to shore up the reputation in terms of morale. the police service. in my part of east london we've seen over one hundred fifty uniform staff gone in the past two years productions in crime which we've seen year on year for six years for the past two years been an increase in crime last year of nine percent saw some parts of the country are being imposed are affecting the safety of people on the streets what do

you say to. the lowest level of police officers now for eleven years. so they not know the police are having to take their share of the of the spending reductions along with the rest of the public sector to get the deficit under control and what we're actually seeing is it's not about numbers it's what you do with the police or innovative ways of maintaining a police presence on the street and jim a home for you have a increase in crime his constituency the fact cross the computer on average last year crime fell by. and fell in my force in leicestershire by eight percent as well so we are seeing a overall reduction in crime across the country at the same numbers but they're doing innovative things like sharing back office services because the forces to save money and keep those police out on the streets where people want to be instead of in offices filling in paperwork and that with red tape to think that they're being in it because. the coalition have been and the way they're cutting public services across the police i was in the fire brigade for twenty five years. the

fire brigade. reporting mechanism for a second job for many many years a lot the reforms. in east london we pioneered policing. popular across a piece. of the marine unit in my area. we've been told that there will be no night patrols on the river as a result of these cuts this is a security terrorism issue as well as an issue of safety on the streets so we have different experiences in terms of our constituencies and everybody wants to support the police and we have a different economic strategy to deal with the deficit and the financial measures that need to be in to just essence what we want to do is support the place we both want to see. best to do that kind of speak about integrity it's not just the police integrity it's the public perception of the police integrity and the reforms will

help to improve the public perception of prison. all right thank you very much you can join in our debate online we've also been on twitter a lot of the public have been getting involved in this debate as well as members of the police. reform to join in the debate about the latest. the westminster has been active in other areas too bringing free mental health treatment for m.p.'s to by example put aside for the program online because the details on why the politicians and all meant are being offered at the treatment free of charge. also online of five football fans on their way to a champions league match died after the plane crashes in donetsk airport in ukraine find out why it came down at all to call.

games. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar . joint operations room today. bears and i just heard of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled the gadhafi regime foreigners are scrambling to get a flight out while government forces and allied militants tighten security around the country and there are fears of violent underestimate growing calls for protests against the current government and there have been reports of nato troops arriving in the capital tripoli but the west has it all for supporting democracy says former ally five agent an emotional. the people who invest a lot of hope in the arab spring i think now they're beginning to realize the harsh reality that a lot of it was backed by the west and the west wants to strip their countries of the mineral wealth and we're seeing the spillover into other areas like mali and niger as well and this is all part of

a bigger thing between us wanting to secure the minerals or says about africa generally and stop china getting them so in terms of democracy in arab spring i think it's very naive to think that that's what the west is trying to help these countries to achieve we've seen an absolute mess left behind by the nato invasion of libya which is what happened two years ago let's not mince words and that was problematic in so many levels not just the international legal level where suddenly aggressive war could be justified as humanitarian intervention even though it destabilized an entire country and results in many more deaths than could be prevented. but also looking at a situation now where the country has lost its stability where there are reports coming out from independent journalists about militias still holding great sweeps the country into their power where we have competing fairly fundamentalist politicians police groups as well fighting over their territory without any of the promised ability wealth and democratic values that were suggested when nato went

in so it's become such a mess in so many levels so bahraini people have been so successful in overthrowing their regime international day of love became a deadly day of protests for them at least one teenager was killed and dozens of demonstrators wounded on the second anniversary of the uprising there and a london based bahraini acts of his dominic kavakeb says that the government is only pretending to be resolving this standoff peacefully. we're looking at two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day the fourteenth of february another teenager has been killed and this really shows and displayed the lack of reform continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the

streets are behind it's good the dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dine in jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing was continuing the violations on the streets people have come out on the streets time and time again saying that they they won't go out and they said do not go home until there's reform and i think the fact that they stayed out for two years clearly proves that so the only solution is through dialogue and i think gradient has to realize that. more people are without work in greece than at any time since they can only crisis began as the unemployment rate creeps up to twenty seven percent international law is that all that stopping the country is going back up and as a full month greek m.p. eva kylie's says it's at the human level that the deep cuts are really. well it

seems that it's getting worse not better this is the famous rescue of greece from the european union they say that will reach thirty percent of unemployment it means that while thousands of people lose their jobs every day in greece this is starting to become a humanitarian crisis and i think it's something that we no one expected to see in the european union you see extreme poverty you see people that they tried to get a plate of food from the church we have two hundred fifty thousand people every day trying to get to the church to find food we're talking about the young people that they want to find a job in greece trying to leave the country we're talking about people that don't have access to primary health services and i would talking about things that no one expected to see it seems that the plan for growth is taking two margin too long

to take place so something has to change i do believe that germany has stuck to this plan and doesn't want to admit the mistakes where we listen every day of things that could have big been better for greece if the plan was better if they had made a better estimation about what would happen but this is something that's not only numbers it's one thousand people human beings in the european union that lose their jobs every day this is creating a humanitarian crisis inside the euro zone. griese bottles its financial problems germany faces serious issues of its own while and clashes have taken place between protesters and police as hundreds of new nurses marched in the city of dresden the rally was held to mark the six to eight anniversary of the allied bombing of the industrial center in world war two a day that has become a focal point for the extreme right in germany thousands of anti fascist protesters formed a human chain around the city to try to block the telestrator. in

the u.s. senate republicans have voted against naming chuck hagel as secretary of defense say his call for delaying his confirmation if she ate senators voted in favor or hey go taking the post too short of the sixty required to go to the next stage of the naming process so republicans say the delay will allow them to find out more about the candidate hago has come in for criticism for saying the jewish lobby has too much influence on washington's. iran says a commander in its elite revolutionary guards has been killed in syria by rebels fighting against president assad tehran said. it was attacking at the lebanese border while travelling from damascus by car syrian rebels have reportedly accused the islamic republic of sending fighters to beit assad in attempts to crush the twenty two month old uprising a charge of iran denies. chinese patrol ship

have entered waters near to a group of disputed islands that have been a bone of contention between china and japan for months now talk e.o. claims there it for its own after having bought it from private owners last september but the whole dispute could be stoked further by washington does that some of the gas in peace levels crosstalk coming up at about six thirty g.m.t. . the u.s. is really behind this dispute the us is playing of japan's fear of falling behind china or losing his primacy in asia and is also blown off the field while in the asian nations towards a resurgent china so just vietnam the philippines and other countries as long as these asian countries fear chinese or bullying them but us has a role to play and they can sell weapons you know and they can stay profitable let me play the devil's advocate. say the united and japan feels more strongly

strongly about going in. to take military action to take to take over these islands because it has the united states backing then china has an excuse to take military action against japan then the united states and japan can declare war on china i don't think anyone really wants this and if anyone with any russian now thinks that through it is it is a dangerous game so i can understand that yes it gets headlines to talk about oh yes it will sell american arms but that is not what's happening here. we see. this. breaking news this hour i witness is in the urals of russia say that burning debris is raining down from the sky possibles believed to be amiss here right exploded

above the windows have been shattered and a black cloud is currently in there as five or six blasts rocks the region so people have been evacuated from buildings when mobile communications are down now and they were feared that it could be a military aircraft or even a missile fishel say the instant must be and meteor shower and of course we'll bring you more details on that as we get them. let's update. you with just a single picture coming up we're going. to leave up next stay for breaking the set with host i've been also neo nazi.

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